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CITY GIRL

CITY GIRL. 1930. 2,700 ft., sd. From the play "The Mud Turtle" by Elliott Lester.

Producer, F. W. Murnau; adaptation and scenario, Berthold Viertel, Marion Orth; edited and titled by Katherine Hilliker, H. H. Caldwell; music, Arthur Kay.

Registration LP984 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-01-10
Claimant
Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-01-10; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since
1 January 2026 (maximum 95-year term from 1930)

The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01.

Renewal R185775 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-02-01
Original cited
L98 / 10Jan30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 18888
R193986,. 
CITY GIRL, a photoplay in seven reels 
by Fox Film Corp. © 10Jan30; 
L98,. Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp. (PWH); 1Feb57; R185775. 
CLARENCE TISDALE SOUTHLAND'S 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 37869–37877.

  CITY GIRL. 1930. 2,700 ft., sd. From the play "The Mud Turtle" by
    Elliott Lester.

    Credits: Producer, F. W. Murnau; adaptation and scenario, Berthold
    Viertel, Marion Orth; edited and titled by Katherine Hilliker, H. H.
    Caldwell; music, Arthur Kay.

    © Fox Film Corp.; 10Jan30; LP984.

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